‘Young people are leaving… there are no jobs… happiness index in Bengal is negative… Socially, we’ve gone back 100 years’: ex-HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay
On March 3, in an unprecedented move, the former Calcutta High Court judge Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned from his office and joined the BJP, raising questions of propriety and judicial independence. In an interview to The Indian Express, the former judge says he is “not yet a politician” but only a “simple political worker “of the BJP and that what appealed to him are the party’s development and nationalism planks. Excerpts: